Genivia/ugrep

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🔍 ugrep 7.8 file pattern searcher -- a user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more

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Forks: 142
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 7
Avg merge: 9h 24m
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: C++
License: BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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7 open issues indexed

Better fuzzy search for OCRed documents Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

Genivia/ugrep#564 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2026
GUI Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Genivia/ugrep#541 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Feature request: Exclude files based on .gitignore from anywhere in git repo Open

discuss enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Genivia/ugrep#536 · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Feature request for command palette and search for options/keybinds Open

discuss enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Genivia/ugrep#535 · Opened Mar 14, 2026
[FR] Make it a dynamically loaded library so it can be used with other GUI wrapper applications. Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Genivia/ugrep#530 · Opened Feb 1, 2026
not always searching uncompressed files in zip stored with the "Store" method Open

discuss enhancement question

Genivia/ugrep#455 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 14, 2025
ugrep as find (fd) replacement Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

Genivia/ugrep#194 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 14, 2022

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